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Both countries have been arguing for a year that because Iraq has made progress toward eliminating its arsenals of missiles and chemical weapons (though not its biological stores), it should receive some kind of carrot--a partial lifting of economic sanctions--to go with all the sticks. (The U.S. considers the "oil-for-food" swap it approved last December to be in this category; the plan allowed Iraq to sell $4 billion worth of oil, using the money for food and medicine.) The motives of the French and the Russians are suspect, however, because both countries stand to reap financial...
...debate about intact dilation and extraction, as described in "The Real Partial-Birth War" [NATION, Oct. 20], is taking a surreal and dangerous turn. People who have no knowledge about this complex procedure are making restrictive judgments that could cause real harm to women. As you noted, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, doctors who deal daily with obstetric complications, are against the ban. And Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health is vehemently opposed to the ban on the procedure and to any interference in the integrity of the patient-doctor relationship and physicians' commitment to the safe practice...
...helps, if you're a holistic vet, to be sensitive to your clients' needs and to deliver whatever level of New Age exoticism they're comfortable with. Although veterinarian John Limehouse of Toluca Lake, Calif., is partial to traditional Chinese and homeopathic treatments, he tends to diagnose and describe his patients' symptoms in familiar Western terms. Sometimes it's easier to tell an owner that a dog has irritable bowel syndrome, he says, than to invoke the Chinese concept of "life force" and explain that an animal has a "deficiency...
Below is a partial and incomplete listing for the die-hard thrill seekers willing to make the trek...
...Last week, scientists submitted a partial report containing the new information to Judge Herve Stephan, who is investigating the case, the sources said. For weeks, police have been combing through records of about 112,000 Fiat Unos registered in the Paris area. The presence of the "second car" was revealed after shards of glass from an Uno's headlights were found on the scene...